jaythesouthernmag

Blah,blah,blah where is it ? According to you in Ashleys pocket but I'm still waiting for the proof The team is better than it was so not sure what your hang up with the money is.

Considering he's been supporting Newcastle for 40 odd years and goes to all the games his input on here is pretty shocking really

So Jonas, one of most hard working players, is dropped for Marvaux and BA is played on the left of a front 3, is that right?

So was obertan. So was Cabaye

Blah,blah,blah

He's a cb and Pearch isn't. We need cover and that's what he will give. I doubt many people on here can pass judgement on him. I would have thought he's been scouted by the club

Why the obsession with the money? If the players coming in are as good or better then who cares what they cost.

Yeah, cause that never happened under Shepherd..... BA Cabaye Tiote Santon Collo Jonas Cisse Hardly duds eh? Just didn't cost a mint which it appears is how Leazes judges a footballer, the bigger the cost the better the player

Taylor was one of our best players upto getting injured

What calibre of player would you expect to be 4th choice cb?

only a 5 year old can seriously believe that selling your best players and pocketing the cash is the way to build a successful football club. Change the record you bore

You are as short sighted as Leazes

Sorry about that mate, sounds great btw

Guess we need a cb more than a fb

factual though. Really? Show everyone the evidence that Mike Ashley has POCKETED the money

Boring

£28 mil better off and with better players too

Shedding pounds off the pitch spending pounds on the pitch. Like that trend, another slimfast Mike?

Sky quoting BA saying he will not disrespect the fans by moving this window

The players who replaced the departed players are as good or better, I think that's the idea of transfers. A club without unlimited resources can't just collect players, It's not a fucking pannini sticker album

Phew!! That's a relief. I saw a post by Leazes and assumed we had sold someone. Calmness now restored

He's probably never played for fans like ours and had the kind of support he gets at sjp and also the away following. I hope this inspires him and Cisse both on and off the pitch.

minus Krul, if current rumours are to be believed ? Then what ? Interesting example, a player who cost us nothing, yet adequately replaced a player sold for £6m. That must mean he's no good right? it's pointless talking to people like you. People who regularly point out the gaping chasm in your argument? I admire your tenacity to stick to the same tried and tested lines in the face of such a tsunami of factual information that contradicts them. Every successful football club (bar those owned by sugar daddy sheikhs and russian oligarchs) are run like businesses. Arsenal have been doing it for years and have consistently achieved CL status. At times they've received bids too good to turn down - occasionally because the player wants the move (see Fabregas, Cole, Nasri) or sometimes because they were selling them at the peak of their value before a inevitable slide in form (see Henry, Viera, Overmars and Petit). What all of these players have in common is that Arsenal made profits on those players, a fraction of which went back in to player recruitment, the rest to pay for operational costs, wages and I dare say shareholder dividends. Where FFS went wrong is that he didn't recoup any real value from his assets. So we consistently bought players at the height of their potential worth and sold them for next to nothing or actually nothing (see Robert, Speed, Martins, Owen, Cort, Dyer). Unless you see players as assets you will always have to find extra revenue to fund new players, and eventually the well will run dry and those wonderful Champions League nights that we all loved will NEVER return. FMA, for all his faults, has managed to get the club back in a financial position where Europe is back as a possibility. Good points, well made but sadly wasted on Leazes

but why are people, who are supposed to support the club, happy with 27m quid of what ought to be the managers transfer money, disappearing ? Isn't this hindering progress ? It hasn't disappeared. Chez's explained this to you far more eloquently than I could on several occasions. That's not a defence of the owner per se but it's the reality of the situation as I see it. It's clearly progress as a team, that much is irrefutable, (it's just not progress at the rate Leazes wants iyam), but for a relegation tipped side we're doing well. You're right about where we need to be strengthening yet (and retention is another matter altogether of course and every bit as important) but I think there was some telling stuff from casino boy who was going on about this sort of signing 'being ideal for the team Pardew's building'. I think that's just code for saying that we're not going to rush to buy a player unless the price is right. We'd been interested previously apparently but not prepared to pay £14 million. So I spose even if the 'Carroll money' was still ringfenced somewhere in a vault (not that it is) theres an argument for saying you dont just spend it immediately because you've got it, because you can end up with any old shit for mega money. I think they drive that austerity too hard btw as no club should ever be left without a striker as we were after Carroll left and I think it was fortunate that didnt hit us harder, but we've now ended up with Ba and Cisse for circa £10 mill combined. If the context is a club that hasnt won anything in the modern game, surely theres some sense in trying to progress steadily, particularly given our biggest asset, which is the apparent unity of the team. Perhaps different if you're a constant CL presence and cant afford one season out of it, maybe then you do go for broke, but that hasn't been us for the best part of a decade. Yeah, spot on that. Agree with all of it tbh. Yep. Pretty much accurate. It shows that the club are prepared to spend when it suits them and as much as I dislike Ashley I have no shame in admitting that it is a good strategy going forward. Especially considering what we are up against in terms of the finances of some of the clubs around us. Aye, the latter point theres just no sense in ignoring-it has to be acknowledged. I spose we could take the rigid view you get in £35 million on a sale and recycle it instantly on a £35 million spend, but that's likely to get you paying over the odds and possibly in situations where you're just buying to find a replacement for a position rather than a player you're particularly interested in from a team point of view. At the end of the day our money is going to have to go further than the likes of Man C/Chelsea/Liverpool/Man U if we want to push on. Obviously he could put his own coin in but he's not going to so that argument is just beyond pointless dealing with the reality of the matter. As I say, I think we've had some fortune where we've seen too much austerity recently, but perhaps you get away with it more when the team spirit is there as the collective effort is greater to compensate for individual areas of weakness. The one thing for certain is it gets a bit daft looking at it any other way than asking; are we progressing on the pitch? We have and we are. The thing is 99.999999999% of fans agree with this, 0.000000001% dont. do you mean match-goers or out of towners ? Leazes, go find another 6 people on here that agree you are 100% right

When would you say we last had a side this good Stevie? 1997. Our midfield was quicker in Robson's day, and we had Shearer and Bellamy but I guarantee we will get just as many goals, and the average age is great now. Yeah, I was looking back through the old teams. I think the back 5 is very strong as a unit, we have a central midfield pairing that would get into most sides, we know Demba is awesome and Cisse looks and sounds the real deal. If Pardew can blend Ben Arfas talent onto this side then I think we are looking at some very good times ahead. I really hope this has been sold to the players and we end up tieing up Colo as a view of intent